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Can Being Framed Affect Google Listings?

Someone framed my site.

         

glitterball

9:07 am on Jan 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

I have just found out that one of my affiliates has put a frameset around my entite website.
The only difference to a user is that the Title now reads '[AffiliateDomain] in association with [MyDomain]'.

Could this do any harm to my website in Google?

[edited by: ciml at 12:19 pm (utc) on Jan. 17, 2004]
[edit reason] Domains tweaked. [/edit]

ronin

1:10 pm on Jan 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Well, it won't affect your site, since you have no control over whether another site tries to put you in its frameset. But allowing your site to appear in a frameset, makes you look a bit amateurish and it opens your affiliate to the charge of "passing off" their site as yours.

I would advise putting a line of javascript on your pages in the head of the document:


<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (window!= top) top.location.href = location.href;
// -->
</script>

to make sure your site always opens in its own window and asking your affiliate (for their sake and yours) to put a bit more effort into it than just including your site in a frameset.

ciml

1:11 pm on Jan 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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In terms of Google, I'd just expect some free PageRank.